Medicine: Heroin Trade

Manhattan police last week arrested nine men for selling narcotics, chiefly heroin, on the streets. The arrests indicated that a "dope ring" had parceled out the island to pedlers, whose sales aggregated $100,000 weekly. A few days before these arrests the police discovered the ring's arsenal-guns and other murderous .instruments in an apartment two blocks from sociologically famed Henry Street Settlement in the lower East Side. The weapons were used to destroy poachers who sneaked into allotted narcotic districts.

Discovery and arrests confirmed the contention which Charles Henry Tuttle published last week: "It...

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